Orin K. Hargraves
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5130 Band Hall
Hill Road Westminster, MD
21158 USA |
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Telephone: Cell: E-mail: |
410 346 6025 443 536 5737 orinhargraves at gmail dot com |
Terms of Engagement
I work on contract for
US, UK, and European research organizations, publishers, and other concerns. My
chief areas of expertise are the English language, with expert knowledge of
dialectal differences between British and American. Most projects I am involved
in result in the publication of reference books and software (primarily
dictionaries), user documentation, and in the production of successively
refined inputs to natural language processing (NLP) systems. If you prefer a
more graphic presentation of my experience and capabilities, please visit my
webpage at PublishersMarketplace.com.
Skills Summary
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lexicography |
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teaching and
training |
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technical
writing and editing (specializing in end-user software manuals) |
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reference
writing and editing (specializing in language reference and encyclopedias) |
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editorial
management |
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expert in British and American English
differences |
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software: MS
Office, XMetaL, PubMan, DPS (IDM’s Dictionary Production System) |
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conversant
in Moroccan Arabic, working knowledge of French, German, classical Greek |
Publications
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Slang
Rules!, an ESL self-study
book (Merriam-Webster, 2008)
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The Big Book
of Spelling Tests (Black
Dog Leventhal, 2007)
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Spell It!, the study guide for the National Spelling
Bee (Scripps Newspapers, 2006 – 2008)
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Cucurbits (article), English Today, October 2004
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Long
Distance Lexicography: a View from the Field (article), Dictionaries 2004
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Who Owns
English? (article), Vocabula
Review, June 2003
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Mighty
Fine Words and Smashing Expressions, a reference book about British and American English differences
(Oxford University Press, 2003)
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Various articles in Verbatim, the Language Quarterly, Spring 2002 –
present (available via Amazon).
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Chicago
At Your Door, a guide for settlers (Times Editions Pte Ltd 1999)
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London
At Your Door (Kuperard, 1997)
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Culture
Shock! Morocco, a guide
to customs and etiquette for foreigners in Morocco (Graphic Arts Center, 1995)
Lexicography and Lexicographic
Research
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Sense
inventory expansion and rationalization for a major new bilingual dictionary
for publication in 2009
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Sense
inventory mapping (WordNet ￫
British National Corpus) on N-N,
N-V, and V-N collocations for the Linguistic
Computing Laboratory (2007)
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Sense
inventory mapping (WordNet ￫ Oxford Dictionary of English) in
preparation for SemEval 2007 (2007)
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Lexical
analysis of corpora, textual data, and word lists for Microsoft’s NLP group (via
their vendor Butler Hill Group; 2003 –
present)
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Principal
lexicographic researcher for the Preposition Project (2005 –
present)
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Briticization
of the Berlitz English
Pronunciation Program CD (2006)
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2006 update of
Words
to Rhyme With by Willard Espy.
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US English
consultant for Collins-Cobuild
English Usage (HarperCollins UK, 2004)
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Editor of New
Words (Oxford University Press, 2004)
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US English
consultant for the Oxford
Dictionary of English (2003) and the Concise Oxford English
Dictionary, 11th edition (2004)
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Editor for the
Cambridge
Dictionary of American Idioms (2003)
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American English
editor for Langenscheidt’s Großwörterbuch Muret-Sanders Deutsch-Englisch
(2003)
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Contributing
Editor for the Oxford Essential Business and Office Dictionary (2002)
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Editor for the
Oxford American College Dictionary (2002)
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Editor for the
Macmillan English Dictionary (2002)
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Contributing
editor to the New Oxford American Dictionary (2001 & 2004), the Oxford
Essential Dictionary of the US Military (2001), and the Oxford
Dictionary of Difficult Words (2001)
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Americanization
and expansion of entries for the Microsoft Encarta Thesaurus (2001)
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Lexicographer
for the Encarta World English Dictionary (1999)
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Contributing
editor to the Cambridge Dictionary of American English (1997)
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New defining
and editing of the entire Longman Interactive American Dictionary CD-ROM
(1997)
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Americanization
of the Longman Handy Learner’s Dictionary (1993)
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Lexicographer
for the Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture (1992)
Research, Writing, and Editing
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Yearly
contributions on developments in American English to The Language Report (Oxford
University Press, 2004 – present)
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Author of the
monthly "Language Lounge" column of VisualThesaurus.com (ongoing)
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Book Review
Editor of Dictionaries, the journal of the Dictionary Society of North
America (2006 – present)
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Writing and
compilation from existing material of a vocabulary builder and a grammar
toolkit for St. Martin’s Press (2005)
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Writing and
editing of encyclopedia articles for the Merriam-Webster
Collegiate Encyclopedia (2000)
(subjects:
botany, computers, food, languages, the Middle East , religion)
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Updating and
extensive rewriting of several titles in the Cultures of the World series
of middle school textbooks (1990s and 2005)
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Copyediting of
several privately published texts on Theravada Buddhism (1986 – 1992)
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Editing, writing and continuous updating of
numerous software and hardware installation, reference, and training manuals
(1980s)
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Writing of
intermediate and advanced EFL texts for Moroccan secondary schools (1980s)
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Co-authoring
of technical language lessons in Arabic (1980s)
Education
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BA with
Honors, General Studies in the Humanities, the University of Chicago, 1977
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Various
certificates in aspects of computing, lexicography, TEFL methodology,
telecommunications
Associations and Memberships
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singer (since
2004), Masterworks Chorale of Carroll
County; vice president starting 2008
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member (since 1993),
the Dictionary Society of North
America; executive board member starting 2005
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Auditor and
board member, International
Meditation Center USA (since 1993)
Employment History
Self-employed
since 1990 as a lexicographer, reference editor, teacher, and writer
1989-1990 System Manager, Williams Lea and Co. Ltd.,
London
1986-1989 Support and Training Coordinator, Williams
Lea and Co. Ltd., London
1984-1986 Technical Writer and Trainer, Datalogics,
Inc., Chicago
1980-1983
EFL teacher
and trainer, US Peace Corps, El Hajeb, Morocco